Anne M Simmons a career employee of Delta Air Lines died peacefully after her battle with cancer at age 73 on July 14th. Anne prayed to receive Christ as her Lord and Savior on July 2nd, 2018 so she is now absent from her body and in the presence of God's Glory.
Anne graduated from Lausanne School where her mother was the librarian. Anne attended Southwestern University (now Rhodes). Upon graduation from Memphis State University Anne began her career as a reservationist for Delta Air Lines in the Memphis office. When Delta closed and consolidated the Memphis office Anne moved to Atlanta, Georgia with the company. Anne took the early retirement package at Delta continuing to work for the company as an independent contractor up until the time of her illness.
Her friends described Anne as a 'renaissance woman' with a wide range of interests who could do and did just about everything she wanted to do. She will be remembered for her quick wit. Anne loved working with her hands building and making things. She tried her hand at everything from gourmet cooking, sewing, making needle point pillows and carpets to rebuilding and decorating her houses. Anne was a prolific reader and collector of books on multiple subjects. Working for Delta provided the 'free passage' allowing Anne to travel with friends worldwide to faraway places like Hong Kong, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Paris, the Swiss Alps in pursuit of her many interests. Anne would fly off with friends to New Orleans for a day or on a snowmobiling trip in Utah or on Bridge playing trips in Florida.
Anne Simmons was pre-deceased by her parents William W Simmons, Jr. and Dorothy Graves Hester Simmons and her niece Dorothy Graves Simmons. She leaves her brother, William W Simmons III (Bill) and his wife Jamie Conditt Simmons of Memphis. She also leaves her niece Mary Simmons Nylin, husband Thomas L Nylin, and her two great nephews Hudson Thomas Nylin and William James Nylin of Castle Rock, Colorado.
A private family graveside service will be followed by a memorial service will be held 2:00 PM Friday, July 20th in the chapel at Elmwood Cemetery, visitation to follow. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials sent to Divine Life Church on Riverdale Road in Memphis or to the charity of their choice